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The “enemy” … 11 December 2011

.Quetta, Pakistan: Smoke and flames rise past residents standing along the wall of a truck terminal where fuel tankers were set ablaze. Militants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at trucks loaded with fuel and supplies for Nato troops in Afghanistan | Naseer Ahmed/Reuters

The Future so bright I gotta wear shades :cool:
from the article:which means that everything the cyberpunks predicted in the mid-80s is finally coming true

Yep. Well, almost.

We can’t directly jack in to to computers, yet
No grown organ transplants.
We don’t have open war with South America,
Giant Babylon space station
No space rastas (I hope I live at least long enough to see that!)
etc.

Undoubtedly the author was bit hyperbolic but William Gibson is a freaking genius…

MOSCOW — Increasingly assailed by charges of electoral fraud, Russia’s governing party, United Russia, held a rally in Moscow on Monday apparently meant as show of strength after a big anti-Kremlin protest over the weekend.

But attendance at the party’s demonstration was sparse, not enough to fill part of the modest square designated for the event, and not even close to the 25,000 people the authorities later said attended. Moreover, many of the attendees seemed to have been taken there against their will.

“I don’t have a clue why I’m here,” said a 23-year-old student named Edik, who like others would not give his last name, fearing reprisals. “It’s for television. These people are lying, promising everything and doing nothing. They canceled our classes for us to come here. I don’t need this.” He added a few unprintable expletives.

Another attendee, Olga, 23, an accountant for a United Russia district office in Moscow, said she was “forced to come.”

“Apparently it’s our duty,” she said. “We’re supposed to make up the masses.”

I figure a lot of the 012 rallies will be smushed into being with a similar model to his very early appeance in Berline. Free beer, free food and three bands. Of course people showed up. Oktoberfest was a ways off yet. Tons of beer sodden white people in Germany cheering for him.

Well if they want tons of beer sodden white people people cheering for him Here, they’ll need to offer free shots. Of course the cheers are apt to be comprised of :
There! Oh! You missed! Set Your Beer Down! Reload! Get Him!
There you go! Fire Again!…..and so forth…

SOMEWHERE ON THE BORDER — Homeland Security decided that wasting $1 billion on the big spy towers flop in Arizona wasn’t enough. Now, Homeland Security has decided to throw away another $1.5 billion for more border spy towers. (Yes, we get it. We understand it is just another big give away for Boeing and its good buddy, the Israeli defense contractor for Apartheid in Palestine, Elbit Systems.)

Most people didn’t notice than when Homeland Security halted the last billion dollar giveaway for border spy towers, another plan for the new $1.5 billion giveway was already set to go.

The upcoming contract for spy towers hasn’t gone out for bid yet. That doesn’t happen until January 2012. However, that didn’t stop Boeing from posting a job opening for those new spy towers, the Integrated Fixed Towers, during November in Tucson. The job post was for a technician based in Ajo, to work on those new spy towers replacing the boondoggle of the Secure Borders Initiative of previous years.

Already, the Tohono O’odham districts have been asked to approve new US spy towers on their sovereign lands.

Israel’s Elbit Systems is pitching itself again for the job. Elbit is also leaking a few secrets, as profiteers do. Elbit, the Israeli defense contractor, brags that it provided a large drone on the southern border of the US and Mexico.

Promoting itself in November, Elbit said, “A leading supplier of UAS, Elbit Systems of America was one of the first companies in the U.S. to fly a large UAS on the southern border as part of a lease project to the Border Patrol, proving the effectiveness of the UAS as a counterpart to border security missions.”

During the previous billion dollar spy towers boondoggle, Boeing subcontracted Elbit. Just as Elbit did at the Palestine border wall, Elbit says it can now deliver all this at US borders: Sensors, radars and electro-optics combined with unattended ground sensors, unmanned air systems and unmanned ground vehicles, for detecting, tracking and identifying.

A lone gunman brought bloodshed and mayhem to the eastern Belgian city of Liège today, killing three people in a frenzied attack during which he lobbed hand grenades and fired an assault rifle into crowds of shoppers and commuters.

• The man, named as 33-year-old Nordine Amrani, died after going on the rampage in the Place Saint Lambert, near the city’s bus station, court and Christmas market. Two teenage boys aged 15 and 17 were killed on the spot, while a 75-year-old woman died of her injuries later. A two-year-old child was reported to be in a critical condition in a local hospital, and at least 75 people were injured.

• Police said it was not clear whether Amrani, who had served time in jail for offences involving guns and drugs, had killed himself or died accidentally. He had been due to appear for police questioning this afternoon. The prosecutor of Liège, Danièle Reynders, said he had brought the weapons in a ruck-sack from his home and walked alone to the square in the city centre.

• Willy Demeyer, the mayor of Liège, said the two teenage victims were school pupils who had just taken exams. Initial speculation that the attack was linked to an attempted jail-break and was carried out by three people was subsequently quashed.

Florence street vendors shot dead by lone gunman
An Italian gunman with fascist sympathies went on a rampage in Florence on Tuesday, killing two African street vendors and wounding three others in broad day light before shooting himself dead.

In November, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released what Paul Pillar, a retired high-ranking CIA officer, characterized as a yawner of a report. The report vaguely described Iran’s efforts to build a nuclear bomb, and it included an explosive claim that a former Soviet nuclear weapons scientist helped Iran construct a detonation trigger that could be used for a nuclear weapon. But, as the independent and enterprising investigative journalist Gareth Porter reported in CounterPunch, it turned out that this so-called foreign expert, who was not named in the IAEA report, had never worked on nuclear weapons. He was identified as Vyacheslav Danilenko, a Ukrainian, who is one of the top specialists in the world in the production of nanodiamonds by explosives. This finding lead Porter to question whether the Israelis had provided the IAEA with false information. Nevertheless, despite Porter’s industriousness, the IAEA’s yawner had planted another subtle impression in the popular psyche, which like the aforementioned plot to kill the Saudi ambassador can be regurgitated repeatedly, when needed for stoking passion with the faux news cycle.

Now, in another important essay, Feeble Pushback From the Prowar Crowd, Paul Pillar describes how, in early December, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta tried to inject a dose of reality into the irrational ‘let’s bomb Iran’ debate at the pro-Israel Saban Center for Middle Eastern Policy [1]. Piller describes in detail how Panetta thoroughly demolished the arguments for launching a preemptive attack on Iran with the aim of destroying Iran’s nuclear weapons program, whatever that is. Of course, Panetta’s dissection of this foolishness does not make for snappy soundbytes and is likely to disappear in the electronic ether.

Not surprisingly, Pillar ended his argument on a pessimistic note by saying the power of Panetta’s analysis may not make a difference.

We’ve gone after all the old enemies. The former associates and vassals. If we can acquire we have.

Why would we leave Syria and Iran out?

I do feel we are functionally insane. Beyond crazy fox, way out in the insane galaxy…. We shake our fist at China and Russia, too. Soon imo we will at Euro Franco-Germania.

I think we are utterly nutz. I think acquisition of resources is pretty much almost a side business, of course we like it and if we can get by taking, Great!!, but the truth is just plain old domination. Domination of people, land – and resources are good to have too… Yum. An so on.

:lol: Well Grassley cut thru the crap rather well.
And now has Corzine and the MFCFO naming names now..
And the GOP are going after Gary Gensler puttin the fix in.
Jeezis – .Corzine was veritably slurring , LOL, referring to
Chairman “GeMLER”. Hell call GeNSLER… Hiimmler. ,or Gafney. or Hefner.
Hell, Who gives a fuck?

WHERE”S THE MONEY CORZINE???
YOU GOT THE MONEY???
WHERE”S THE FUCKIN MONEY, MAN???:lol:

Well for Prêt-à-Porter Holiday crafts , I’m tryin to track down a bunch of those REALLY GOOD refrigerator boxes, you know?? LOL With several extra for the folded tops. Ready to wear!

Oh it is SUCH LAUGHINGSTOCK these hearings….
Next up? The “regulator” Jill Sommers, underling to Gensler at CFTC, LOBBYISTA for the Swaps and Derivatives Association..
Fucking ridiculous the whole thing..

I SAY they ALL get life-size Milk Cartons to wear ..till they “Find” it.
Corzine, his pals, AND ‘The Committees”. ALL of them

Have you seen this money?
IF YOU FIND 1.8 BILLION DOLLARS., Please Call….
…and so forth….We’ll Pick it Up!

Oopsie! <b?The head of the CME is now testifying – straight up – that Corzine KNEW and they have turned the names of the MF Gloabla people who reported this to the CME and all names and documentation have been turned over to the DoJ. :oops: OOPS.

Oopsie! The head of the CME is now testifying – straight up – that Corzine KNEW and they have turned the names of the MF Gloabla people who reported this to the CME and all names and documentation have been turned over to the DoJ

He’ll be doing more than slurring the odd name here or there.

Maybe a suite is opening up in No Carolina… Madoff on one side, Pollard in the middle and Corzine to the other side.

I can see it.

Slob and Holder can point to Big Democrat Big Gold Saxe boy Corzine. “See we meant business all along!”

So.

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George Mitchell, the former senator and U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under President Obama, joins us to discuss the escalating U.S.-Israel standoff over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign against an Iran nuclear deal and open rejection of the two-state solution. Last week, it emerged Israeli intelligence spied on the Iran talks and […]

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On Reality Asserts Itself, Craig and Cindy Corrie tell Paul Jay, "people find hope in the work that we're doing and in the fact that Rachel was there that day, and stood against what was happening to all of those families in the Gaza Strip"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department is revamping its rules to speed up purchases of commercial items, part of a larger drive to attract new suppliers to the U.S. weapons market and drive down acquisition costs, the Pentagon's pricing czar told Reuters.

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from Howl

I'm with you in Rockland
where we wake up electrified out of the coma
by our own souls' airplanes roaring over the
roof they've come to drop angelic bombs the
hospital illuminates itself imaginary walls collapse
O skinny legions run outside O starry
spangled shock of mercy the eternal war is
here O victory forget your underwear we're free
I'm with you in Rockland
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-
journey on the highway across America in tears
to the door of my cottage in the Western night

October 7 1955

"a remarkable collection of angelson one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure

Democrats…

Same as goddam fucking forever.
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.